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SUMMARY:Form and Function of Complex Systems
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230913
DTSTAMP:20260428T074413Z
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CATEGORIES:Convention
DESCRIPTION:Gabriele Manoli (EPFL) Sara Bonetti (EPFL) Lida Kanari (EPFL) 
 Jeffrey Huang (EPFL) Marc Barthélémy (IPhT) Kaare Jensen (DTU) Mario Put
 ti (UNIPD) Diego Rynski (PIK) Caterina De Bacco (Max Planck) Daniel Rothma
 n (MIT)\nWorkshop on transport\, metabolism\, and design in Nature and Soc
 iety\nRoads and railways across the world exhibit striking similarities wi
 th other transport networks found in nature\, from rivers\, to leaf venati
 on\, tree branching\, mammalian circulatory systems\, and cancer vasculari
 zation. All these systems have been designed\, or have evolved\, to distri
 bute resources (e.g.\, people\, water\, blood\, nutrients) in an efficient
  manner. This has generated distinctive scaling properties (e.g. between s
 ize and metabolic rate) that hold across a variety of organisms and system
 s\, hinting to the existence of a unifying theory linking the form and fun
 ction of complex systems in the natural\, social\, and technological domai
 ns.  \nThis workshop aims at exploring such similarities to investigate 
 how natural and urban systems have coevolved with their surrounding enviro
 nment\, how they grow and respond to external perturbations\, and how we c
 an learn from the natural world to design more resilient and sustainable i
 nfrastructures. The goal is to boost and encourage the exchange of ideas\,
  cooperation\, and the crossing of disciplinary boundaries.  
LOCATION:GCA 3 31 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==GC%20A3%2031
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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